Prefecture D, Hideo Yokoyama
Prefecture D, Hideo Yokoyama
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Prefecture D
Four Novellas

Author: Hideo Yokoyama, Jonathan Lloyd-Davies

Narrator: Tom Lawrence

Unabridged: 6 hr 12 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 11/10/2020


Synopsis

A collection of tense thrilllers, each centered on a mystery and the unfortunate officer tasked with solving it, set in the world of Hideo Yokoyama's bestselling Six Four.

Four novellas: Each taking place in 1998.

SEASON OF SHADOWS
"The force could lose face . . . I want you to fix this." Personnel's Futawatari receives a horrifying memo forcing him to investigate the behavior of a legendary detective with unfinished business.

CRY OF THE EARTH
"It's too easy to kill a man with a rumor." Shinto of Internal Affairs receives an anonymous tip-off alleging a station chief is visiting the red-light district—a warning he soon learns is a red herring.

BLACK LINES
"It was supposed to be her special day." Section Chief Nanao, responsible for the force's forty-nine female officers, is alarmed to learn her star pupil has not reported for duty and is believed to be missing.

BRIEFCASE
"We need to know what he's going to ask." On the eve of a routine debate, Political Liaison Tsuge learns a wronged politician is preparing his revenge. He must now quickly dig up dirt to silence him.

Prefecture D continues Hideo Yokoyama's exploration of the themes of obsession, saving face, office politics, and interdepartmental conflicts. Placing everyday characters between a rock and a hard place and then dialing up the pressure, he blends and balances the very Japanese with the very accessible, to spectacular effect.

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About Hideo Yokoyama

Born in 1957, Hideo Yokoyama worked for twelve years as an investigative reporter with a regional newspaper north of Tokyo, before becoming one of Japan’s most acclaimed fiction writers. His exhaustive and relentless work ethic is known to mirror the intense and obsessive behavior of his characters, and in January 2003 he was hospitalized following a heart attack brought about by working nonstop for seventy-two hours. Six Four is his sixth novel, and his first to be published in the English language, followed by Seventeen.


Reviews

Been wanting to read Prefecture D after having a starstruck with both Six Four and Seventeen. However, unlike both Six Four and Seventeen (complex narratives and characters which include both police procedural and crime investigations), Prefecture D focused more on the internal police scandals and b......more

Goodreads review by Yigal

i read 2 of the novellas in this collection. the first one was very delicate. not the "regular" thriller you expect. there is a very shadowy crime in the back ground and most of the tension is coming from the Japanese cups who is torn between obligation to the tough system and the sense of compassio......more

Goodreads review by Mizuki

Season Of Shadows is the second or third book I've read by Hideo Yokoyama, the main characters of this short stories collection are all cops from the same district. Surprisingly, most of these stories aren't your normal 'cops go out catching bad guys and saving the day' drama. Yes, those cops are st......more

Seek no Murakami here. Yokoyama is a classic understated Japanese author. This set of four novella are more mysteries than police procedurals. Each turn on an aspect of Japanese culture familiar to the Japanese or those who’ve spent some time there. These cultural drivers are ugly, but common, and u......more